Was "Brokeback Mountain" really my last gay moviegoing experience?

There's a depressing article in yesterday's Hollywood Reporter about the sad state of gay cinema. It's called "Gay pride abounds, but indie gay films tank," and it paints a pretty bleak portrait of the future of gay themed films at the box office:

"Strand Releasing's 22 films in theaters last year (most with GLBT themes) grossed just $462,000. Killer Films has shifted its focus from queer-themed features to true crime dramas and other films, with tepid critical and financial success. Rotten Tomatoes says that gay- and lesbian-themed films averaged a 51.5% rating in 2006 and 2007 (well below its under-60% "rotten" threshold), while projects like the 2005 Toronto fest's best Canadian feature winner, C.R.A.Z.Y., can't secure U.S. theatrical distribution."

Most of these same issues were brought up (and in more depth) back in April in an article on The Gay Movie Revolution, but I find one of the themes in both articles — that fewer and fewer gay films are seeing the darkness of movie theaters — extremely distressing.

For those of us who don't live in big cities with thriving gay communities, it's impossible to see a movie like Shelter on the big screen, where it belongs. Sure, we get absolute dreck like I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (held over another week!) but unless a gay romance is a cultural milestone, like Brokeback Mountain, there is no way a small town theater would go anywhere near it. (As it is, our theater only showed Brokeback twice, both times at Midnight, like it was too shameful to be shown during the day.)

The next big "gay" movie is probably Milk, which i seriously doubt will be shown anywhere around here. When it comes out, I'm going to have to decide if traveling 50 miles to see it is worth it (and the fact that gas will probably be $5.00 a gallon by then will make it tougher).

When I was preparing the blog post about Frameline 32, it sadly dawned on me that most of these films will never again be seen on a movie screen. A visual and aural feast like Were The World Mine deserves to be seen in the community of a crowded theater, and even an obviously goofy horror movie like Cthulthu begs for the vocal snarkiness of the stoned college kids in the back row.

Shelter

While it's great that cable outlets like Logo and here! are producing their own gay themed films, a little of the magic is lost when you can't experience it with a $5.00 box of Sno-Caps and a horny teen couple making out two rows ahead of you.

So here's my question: What's the last "gay movie" you saw in the theater?  Feel free to share in the comments.